Growing Social Capital in the Classroom

Autor/inn/en	Arriaza, Gilberto; Rocha, Christie
Titel	Growing Social Capital in the Classroom
Quelle	In: Issues in Teacher Education, 25 (2016) 1, S.59-71 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1536-3031
Schlagwörter	Social Capital; Interpersonal Relationship; Interpersonal Competence; Trust (Psychology); Social Networks; Classroom Environment; Social Behavior; Sharing Behavior; Social Exchange Theory; Play; Playground Activities; California + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sozialkapital; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Interpersonale Kompetenz; Social network; Soziales Netzwerk; Klassenklima; Unterrichtsklima; Social behaviour; Soziales Verhalten; Theorie des sozialen Wandels; Spiel; Kalifornien
Abstract	Sharing school supplies appears, indeed, a simple, even an irrelevant routine activity, but upon closer examination one realizes that deeper and complex issues are at stake. This article aims at explaining how seemingly uneventful classroom activities contain the potential to building social capital in the classroom, which occurs when and if teachers carry them out intentionally and systematically. The authors explore the idea that, of all social institutions, school classrooms represent the most formidable soil for social capital to grow. Following Coleman (1988) this study defined social capital as the social worthiness embedded in relationships. Thus, social capital conveys the idea that social ties contain intrinsic value that functions in the way that money does in the capitalist economic system. In other words, the usefulness of social relationships holds the potential to being transported, accumulated, exchanged, and transferred (Arriaza, 2015; Kingston, 2001). This article first reviews the extant literature on social capital as it relates to schools and communities; second, it discusses the core findings through the prism of social capital theory, specifically around trust and reciprocity. The article closes with a discussion on the implications of the findings. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01